Saturday, February 14, 2015

The controversial widening of State Highway 164 north of I-94 through Waukesha and Washington Counties produced some refreshingly novel discussion during a recent campaign debate by three Republicans competing to replace the former incumbent State Senator Glenn Grothman:

For instance, all three [candidates] were asked how they would approach funding highway projects — a large issue Walker is handling through a proposed $1.3 billion in bonding

[Army veteran Tiffany] Koehler said... Instead of spending $60 million to fix Highway 164 in Washington County, for instance, the state should be “dropping the speed limit and putting up a few speed signs."

She also called for an audit of the Transportation Department and claimed that DOT Secretary Mark Gottleib — a Republican and who used to serve as the representative for the Ozaukee County area — was “not a fiscal conservative.”

“I believe in canceling unnecessary projects like this one and returning money to the local level,” Koehler said.

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What water, wetland protection is all about

"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.